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Hakim-hakim 17:5

Mikha ini mempunyai kuil. Dibuatnyalah efod dan terafim, ditahbiskannya salah seorang anaknya laki-laki, yang menjadi imamnya.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ephod;   Polytheism;   Teraphim;   Thompson Chain Reference - Ephod;   False;   Idolatrous;   Idolatry;   Images;   Leaders;   Priests;   Religious;   Teraphim;   Worship, False;   Worship, True and False;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ephod, the;   Idolatry;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ephod;   Idol, Idolatry;   Jonathan;   Judges;   Teraphim;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ephod;   Idol, idolatry;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Idol;   Thummim;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ephod;   Hand;   Jonathan;   Pentateuch;   Rachel;   Teraphim;   Urim and Thummim;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ephod;   Hand;   Inquire of God;   Judges, Book of;   Shrine;   Teraphim;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Art;   Bethlehem;   Ephod;   God;   High Place, Sanctuary;   Idolatry;   Images;   Israel;   Levi;   Micah, Micaiah;   Priests and Levites;   Samson;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Hand ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ephod;   Teraphim;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ephod;   Idolatry;   Jonathan;   Micah;   Teraphim;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mi'cah;   Teraphim;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Hand;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bethlehem;   Consecrate;   Ephod (1);   Ezekiel;   Gods;   Images;   Israel, History of the People;   Israel, Religion of;   Jonathan (1);   Judges, Period of;   Micah (1);   Priests and Levites;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Anointing;   Ephod;   Euphemism;   High Place;   Micah;   Priest;   Sacrifice;   Teraphim;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for December 15;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Mikha ini mempunyai kuil. Dibuatnyalah efod dan terafim, ditahbiskannya salah seorang anaknya laki-laki, yang menjadi imamnya.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka dengan demikian peri adalah pada Mikha sebuah mandarsah, maka diperbuatnya suatu efod dan terafim, lalu dilantiknya salah seorang anaknya laki-laki menjadi imam baginya.

Contextual Overview

1 There was a man of mount Ephraim, named Micah. 2 And he sayde vnto his mother: The seuen hundred siluerlynges that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest it in myne eares, behold the syluer is with me, I toke it away. And his mother sayd: Blessed be thou my sonne, in the Lorde. 3 And when he had restored the leuen hundreth syluerlynges to his mother, his mother sayde: I had dedicated the syluer vnto the Lorde of myne hande for thee my sonne, that thou shouldest make a grauen and moulten image: Now therfore I will geue it thee agayne. 4 And when he restored the money vnto his mother, his mother toke two hundreth syluerlynges, and gaue them the founder, which made therof a grauen moulten image, and it was in the house of Micah. 5 And the man Micah had an house of goddes, and made an Ephod and Theraphim, and consecrated one of his sonnes, which became his prieste. 6 In those dayes there was no kyng in Israel, but euery man dyd that which was good in his owne eyes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

an house of gods: or, as baith Elohim may also signify, "a house of God." Judges 18:24, Genesis 31:30, Ezra 1:7, Hosea 8:14

ephod: Judges 8:27, Judges 18:14, Exodus 28:4, Exodus 28:15, 1 Samuel 23:6

teraphim: Genesis 31:19, Genesis 31:30, *marg. Hosea 3:4

consecrated: Heb. filled the hand, Exodus 29:9, 1 Kings 12:31, 1 Kings 13:33, 1 Kings 13:34, Hebrews 5:4

his sons: Exodus 24:5

Reciprocal: Judges 17:12 - consecrated Judges 18:5 - of God Judges 18:17 - the graven 1 Samuel 19:13 - an image 2 Kings 23:24 - images 2 Chronicles 22:3 - his mother Proverbs 30:12 - that are Isaiah 5:18 - draw Isaiah 44:13 - that it may Ezekiel 21:21 - images

Cross-References

Genesis 17:2
And I wyll make my couenaunt betweene me and thee, and wyll multiplie thee exceedyngly.
Genesis 17:4
It is I, behold my couenaut [is] with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
Genesis 17:15
And God sayde vnto Abraham: Sarai thy wyfe shalt thou not call Sarai, but Sara [shall] her name be.
Genesis 17:21
But my couenaunt wyl I make with Isahac whiche Sara shall beare vnto thee, euen this tyme twelue moneth.
Genesis 17:23
Abraham toke Ismael his sonne, and such as were borne in his house, & al that was bought with money, as many as were men chyldren, whiche were amongst the men of Abrahams house, & circumcised the fleshe of their foreskinne euen in the selfe same day, as God had sayde vnto hym.
Genesis 32:28
He sayde: thy name shalbe called no more Iacob, but Israel: For as a prince hast thou wrasteled with God, and with men, and hast preuayled.
Numbers 13:16
These are the names of the men which Moyses sent to spie out the land: And Moyses called the name of Osea the sonne of Nun, Iosuah.
2 Samuel 12:25
And had sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet: therefore he called his name Iedidia, of the Lordes behalfe.
Nehemiah 9:7
Thou art, O Lorde, the God that hast chosen Abraham, and broughtest him out of Ur in Chaldea, and calledst him Abraham:
Isaiah 65:15
Your name shall ye leaue accursed among my chosen: for God the Lorde shall slay you, and call his seruauntes by another name.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the man Micah had an house of gods,.... Having two images in it, besides teraphim, which were a sort of idols; and the Targum is, an house of images, or idols; though it may be rendered "an house of God"; a temple, a place for religious worship:

and made an ephod; a priestly garment, a linen one very probably, not so rich an one with a breastplate to it as the high priest had, which was very costly. Ben Melech interprets it a girdle, and there was a curious girdle of the ephod, with which it was girt; this may be here put for the rest of the priestly garments which Micah provided:

and teraphim; which were a sort of household gods, like the Lares and Penates of the Romans, and by which consultations were made;

:- :- :- Micah proposed to have an oracle in his house, whereby he might consult the Lord about future things, and not be at the trouble of going to the tabernacle, and consult there by Urim and Thummim; and the same some take the teraphim to be:

and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest; or, "filled the hand" k of one of them; that is, with offerings, as Ben Melech interprets it; in which way priests were initiated, and consecrated to their office; see Exodus 28:41 or, as Kimchi expresses it, he offered his offerings by the hand of one of his sons, and appointed him to be a priest, very probably his eldest son.

k וימלא את יד "et implevit manum", Montanus, V. L.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 17:5. The man Micah had a house of gods — בית אלהים beith Elohim should, I think, be translated house or temple of God; for it is very likely that both the mother and the son intended no more than a private or domestic chapel, in which they proposed to set up the worship of the true God.

Made an ephod — Perhaps the whole of this case may be stated thus: Micah built a house of God - a chapel in imitation of the sanctuary; he made a graven image representing the ark, a molten image to represent the mercy-seat, teraphim to represent the cherubim above the mercy-seat, and an ephod in imitation of the sacerdotal garments; and he consecrated one of his sons to be priest. Thus gross idolatry was not the crime of Micah; he only set up in his own house an epitome of the Divine worship as performed at Shiloh. What the teraphim were, Genesis 31:19; Genesis 31:19; for the ephod, Exodus 25:7; Exodus 25:7; and for the sacerdotal vestments in general, Exodus 28:4; Exodus 28:4, c.

Who became his priest. — כהן cohen, which the Targum translates chumera. The word כהן cohen is the common name in Hebrew for a priest of the true God but sometimes it is applied to idolatrous priests. When it is to be understood in the former sense, the Targum renders it cahen; when in the latter, it uses the word כומרא chumera, by which it always understands an idolatrous priest. But that this was not a case of idolatry, and that the true God was worshipped here, is evident from the word Jehovah being used, Judges 17:4, and oracular answers being given at this house, as we see from Judges 18:6 &c.


 
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